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Do you eat everything you shoot?

Do you eat what you kill?
16 (76.2%)
OR do you kill for fun?
5 (23.8%)

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Voting closed: November 27, 2005, 04:47:05 PM

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Offline volshooter

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« on: November 27, 2005, 04:47:05 PM »
Members I been eating coon for years and been laughed at. I eat every critter except opossum, never developed a taste for them. I bake coons on 200 degrees in a big ole cast iron Dutch oven with some taters, carrots, onions, bacon, butter, garlic powder and a touch of H2O overnight. I live in East Tennesee and some of these folks look at me like somethings wrong with me. They say even coon hunters don't eat coons. Where have all the men gone? Anyway I just wanted to know if any y'all have a different recipe for coon or groundhog. Ramp season is in the spring and I might have some extra to try. It bewilders me that folks under 30 think all meat comes wrapped in plastic. I believe that if the electricty goes out for a month, most folks will starve. All I need is a small handful of .22's and a straight rifle and me and mine will be the fattest around. When dad was alive we looked at everything as food. nobody gathers hickory or walnuts, black berries, rasperberries, persimmions, PawPaws, watercress or even snappers! I won't go on as I don' think mutch of the next generation of $5 coffee drinkers.

GOD bless, Rick
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« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2005, 07:17:50 PM »
Ive not eat a bait of ramps in years. Use to love them with taters or just clean and eat them with biscuits. When I was in school they would send us home if we eat them and came to school. After I got married me and the guys had to go to the woods for a few days to camp and eat ramps. My wife could not stand them.
Ive eat a ton of water crest.  what we used to call branch lettuce.
and yes Mom would fix the coons we brought in. She would cover them with sage, pepper and salt then bake them for about 3 or 4 hours at a temp I dont know. It would look like a dog on the plate but was all eat.
Talking about picking black berries, did you ever get chiggers all over the private parts of your body and rub them with fatback and salt.
I grew up across the state line from you in western NC.      Briarpatch
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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2005, 11:06:08 AM »
Patch you aint gonna believe this but chiggers and ticks don't like me! I'm 47 and have spent alot of time in the weeds/woods and have yet to get either one. I am one of the 1% that they don't like GRIN....but skeeters line up for my elbows. Dad used to get get chiggers real bad following me during scouting. I always made him strip and sprayed RAID on him and made him wait 5 minutes before showering, it will 100% kill them.

Rick
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Offline Jerry Lester

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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2005, 02:41:59 PM »
I eat mostly everything I kill. I hunt predators a lot, and don't eat them, although fox meat sure does look all light colored, and tasty! LOL!

I don't eat every groundhog, or coon I kill, but I do eat'em on occasion.

I've eat beaver, muskrat, chipmunks, and several other odd critters too. If I had to name a favorite among the odd critters, it'd definately be muskrats. I'd rather eat muskrat stew than any other wild game dish including deer, and such.
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2005, 02:52:58 PM »
Will, I guess I will confess, I do will eat almost everything I shoot except a coyote or a fox.  :lol:
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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2005, 03:18:46 PM »
hm, ive never tried eating it... i would like to have a couple of recipes! :D
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Offline chaplain robert

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« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2005, 03:21:24 PM »
I like it boiled, shredded and dumped in a crock pot with BBQ sauce.  It is usually one of the most popular things at potlucks until someone asks what it is!!  By now, folks pretty much don't eat what I bring.  But that is fine by me.  I big ole platter of food entitles me to grub at the table and I get to take my leftovers home.  

Folks here in KCMO advertise coon and possum meat in the classifieds under "good things to eat" for sale and also every now and then, you'll find someone in the city just selling em out of their trunk.

Don't knock possum meat--better than going hungry although a tad greasy.  Much improved by live trapping and feeding a week or so on corn chop.
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2006, 07:43:02 AM »
my bro and i eat damn near everything we hunt. and what we cant eat we use for trap bait.  but beaver, muskrat, coon, and most of the small game we do keep for the table.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2006, 06:23:29 AM »
It has been many years but I remember eating Chicken Fried Coon at a friends house. I loved it and eat large amount.

Has anyone ever eat Beaver of the water and dam building kind? This is not a joke are a loaded question. I ask because I may be taking some for my Brother off his property.

Don Jackson Remington Magnum
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2006, 10:56:03 AM »
Beavers are excellent both roasted and BBQed.  When I was younger and trapped a lot I ate a little bit of everything.  The only thing that I regularly caught that I didn’t try was possum.  On the rare occasion when we caught more critters than we could use for bait we would skin them and discard the carcasses in the woods.  We could always count on going back to our ‘body dump’ and find every thing gone but the possums.  Enough said.
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2006, 11:23:43 AM »
I have heard that coon is very greasy is it?

the only thing I have had a chance of eating is squirrel, deer, and some occasional rabbit

also is dove good, i have heard that it is
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